German Open 2024 – Day Two: Afternoon Roundup

No.2 seed Marwan ElShorbagy crashes out of inaugural German Open in his first match by an in-form Bernat Jaume in straight games to round off a eventful afternoon session.

In a match that saw 21 decisions and two conduct strokes, Jaume found himself ahead in all three games despite strong fight backs from ElShorbagy.

The final game saw a lot of interruptions, but the Spaniard kept ahead, with several good drops and closed out the third game 11-5 to take his place in the quarter-finals.

“Marwan and I are very close friends,” said Jaume after the match. “I know he wasn’t going to give me anything, just for the fact that we’re cool. I think that if I didn’t take the match with some physicality, and it would be a little scrappy, he would be on top of me.

“I don’t think it was his best day, and I think I took good advantage of the dead ball.

“Inside the chaos I think i stayed more calm than him. I think that first game was very crucial. We were playing some squash and I carried on the momentum and I’m really happy about that.

“It’s a very big win. It’s my first win against a top ten player, and he’s a legend of the game so it’s going to stay with me forever.”

In the first match of the day, No.3 seed Georgina Kennedy controlled her second round encounter against Malaysia’s Ainaa Amani to a comfortable 3-0 win.

Amani, who defeated Switzerland’s Nadia Pfister in the first round, couldn’t keep up with the England No.1’s physicality, and Kennedy lead the opening phase convincingly, maintaining a strong lead throughout the first game to win 11-4.

The second game saw an even more controlled showing from the Englishwoman and except a tin hit at 9-0, Kennedy played a flawless game, pulling Amani around the court while more errors crept into the Malaysian’s play. Kennedy continued her dominance into the third and final game, and won 11-2 to round off an impressive second round performance.

An equally strong performance was seen in the first men’s match of round two, as Malaysia’s Eain Yow Ng beat out Israel’s Daniel Poleshchuk in an exciting 3-0 win.

The Malaysian had the lead throughout, and saw comfortable 11-4, 11-3, 11-5 wins, but the Israeli did win several impressive points, including a athletic effort in at 3-6 in the third game where after scrambling to recover two pin-point shots from the No.3 seed, Poleshchuk found a perfect length and buried a winner into the back right corner.

In the last women’s match of the afternoon session, No.2 seed Tinne Gilis defeated Spain’s Marta Dominguez in four games.

A strong start for the Spaniard saw Dominguez go from 4-5 down to 11-7 as the Belgian looked of the pace in the opening phases. The World No.8 soon found her footing, and lead the match from the beginning of the second game. Gilis showed her experience as took three games in quick succession 11-6, 11-3, 11-1.

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Results: German Open 2024 – Presented by Sportwerk Women’s RD2
[3] Georgina Kennedy (ENG) bt Ainaa Amani (MAS) 3-0: 11-4, 11-1, 11-2 (20m)
[2] Tinne Gilis (BEL) bt Marta Dominguez (ESP): 3-1: 7-11, 11-3, 11-6, 11-1 (32m)

Results: German Open 2024 – Presented by Sportwerk Men’s RD2
[4] Eain Yow Ng (MAS) bt Daniel Poleshchuk (ISR) 3-0: 11-4, 11-3, 11-5 (28m)
Bernat Jaume (ESP) bt [2] Marwan Elshorbagy (ENG) 3-0: 11-8, 11-6, 11-5 (39m)